Canada bans broadcast of classic rock song by Dire Straights - "Money for Nothing".

[Sola_Fide]

The sad thing is that the PC police infect the Ron Paul Revolution and these boards.

You know I'm right. Think about it.

 

[Heimdallr]

Holy shit.

I live in St. John's and listen to OZ-FM all the time.

I had no idea.

 

[awake]

In Canada we have it better in some ways and worse in others. Overall I think we just average out for a moderately socialist country. The reason I think Canada does have a slight advantage is that we have a population of aprox. 32 million and not much of a base for the overgrowth of a micromanagement state (lack of man power). There are great amounts of territory in Canada still mostly uninhabited, and one could in all intensive purposes disappear in some places, where you might see a police officer once a day passing thorough on a visit.

But gems like this story make the individuals who helped produce these anti-free speech controls look as they should, scared, ignorant and coercive.

 

[rp08orbust]

So how does one legally refer to a bundle of sticks in Canada?

 

[Anti Federalist]

So how does one legally refer to a bundle of sticks in Canada?

About the same way you have to refer to a cheap, parsimonious person here.

You certainly can't call them niggardly.

 

[specialK]

But gems like this story make the individuals who helped produce these anti-free speech controls look as they should, scared, ignorant and coercive.

We can thank the Canadian Jewish Congress and CBC for this:

I've written before about how in the 1960s the Canadian Jewish Congress spent its donors' money building up the "Canadian Nazi Party" as a straw man for them to later bravely knock down, with cameras rolling. It all made no sense if the CJC's goal was to make the country safer for Jews; it made a lot of sense if the CJC's goal was to usher in powerful new censorship laws for its own use, and to write dramatic fundraising letters -- in other words, to perpetuate the symbiosis between themselves as "victims" and fake Nazis as "victimizers".

http://ezralevant.com/2008/09/the-execrable-reason-we-have-h.html

 

[osan]

This would make them piss their pants:

Ah yes, the good old days with Henry Rollins...

 

[osan]

The owner of that radio station should play nothing but the Mentors for a week straight as a protest. Perhaps whoever complained would rather listen to their song Judgement Day. Or maybe even the Feederz song Jesus Entering From The Rear (the version on the Let Them Eat Jellybeans compilation is far superior to the version on the album that had the sandpaper on the front cover). As per AF, Black Flag's Police Story is a good suggestion too, but perhaps the song Rise Above would be even better for this particular occasion.

Or perhaps the ever popular "Fuck You" by DOA, a CANADIAN band.

You call us weirdos, call us crazy
Say we're evil, say we're lazy
Say we're just the violent type
Kind of dumb, not too bright

We don't care what you say, fuck you.
We don't care what you say, fuck you.

You tell your friends that we're really sick
Short haired fags on a commie trip
And you should know, 'cause you're so cool
Number one, nobody's fool

We don't care what you say, fuck you.
We don't care what you say, fuck you.

So come on man, you better jump right in
This is one game that everybody's in
Don't care where ya been, don't care how you look
It's hell fire war, you really gotta cook


We don't care what you say, fuck you.
We don't care what you say,
We don't care what you say,
We don't care what you say,


Fuck you.
Fuck you
Fuck you
Fuck you

 

[angelatc]

The sad thing is that the PC police infect the Ron Paul Revolution and these boards.

You know I'm right. Think about it.

Dire Straits isn't trying to win an election, nor are they passing themselves off as representing Ron Paul's views.

 

[BlackTyrone]

So no Rap lyrics allowed in Canada?

 

[Anti Federalist]

Judas Priest on the Surveillance State

Posted by Stephan Kinsella on January 15, 2011 10:29 AM

Listening the other day to one of my favorite rock bands from the 80s, Judas Priest, I was struck by the prescience of the lyrics to their great song Electric Eye, from their 1982 Album Screaming for Vengeance. Released almost 30 years ago, it eerily describes the Bush-Obama PATRIOT-act surveillance state:

Up here in space
I’m looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do

You think youve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
I’m watching all the time

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye

Always in focus
You cant feel my stare
I zoom into you
You dont know Im there

I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m elected electric spy
I’m protected electric eye

Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows

I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

I’m elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye

Protected. detective. electric eye

According to Wikipedia, ““Electric Eye” is an allusion to the book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, in the use of the name of the pseudo-omniscient satellite that watches over the community at all times. In this dystopia, the form of government, Ingsoc (Newspeak for English Socialism), is utterly totalitarian, and if citizens are caught rebelling in any manner, they “disappear.”” So Judas Priest’s prescience is due to Orwell’s own prescience.

I was also listening recently to another of my favorite groups, the under-appreciated Riot. Their 1982 song CIA (lyrics) provides a realistically cynical description of the murderous state and its agents, including lines like:

You won’t believe what I’m after
I play this game for keeps
Amidst of blood and disaster
I’ll drop you down on your knees

… I got a licence to murder
the perpetrators must die
.. I don’t have much to regret baby
you see me on the tv
The politicians I protect
they’re filled with hate and disease

I’m in the C.I.A.
I stand around like a stallion
you know I think I’m too cool
… My venom sprays from my magnum
try to escape and you’re shot
I signed a contract with satan
so I don’t worry at all
… I fight my way out of trouble
in god we trust is my clout

… I’m in the C.I.A.
And I’ll blow your face away …

Not that it’s Riot’s best song. Its best songs include Outlaw, Altar of the King, and 49er—and the absolutely wild and crazy Hot for Love (and explicit—their first great singer, the late Guy Speranza, reportedly quit the band because of his Christian beliefs).

 

[Brian4Liberty]

The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council has ruled that Dire Straits’ 1980s hit Money for Nothing is too offensive for Canadian radio.

The ruling, released Wednesday, was in response to a complaint against St. John’s radio station CHOZ-FM. The listener complained that the word faggot – which appears three times in the song is “extremely offensive” to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

Canadians are totally gay.

On a serious note, here we have an example of the tyranny of the one. One person complains, and something is changed for the entire society. That is lunacy.

You want to ban something that effects everyone? Get a 90% vote in favor of a law, then we'll talk...

 

[Brian4Liberty]

I hope the guys from South Park pick up on this. They love to beat the shit out of Canada and well, for this they deserve it.

No doubt it will be in a script the minute that Matt and Trey hear the story...

 

[awake]

I guess now every song with "nigger", or"nigga" in it, whether affectionately used or not, must be pulled eh?

 

[Anti Federalist]

I guess now every song with "nigger", or"nigga" in it, whether affectionately used or not, must be pulled eh?

If there is any consistency within the Canadian "decency boards" I would have to assume so.

 

[awake]

Oh, and the really old songs that used the word gay (in the happy sense) in case some one may interpret it wrong... They honestly are ignorant of the precedent and principle they set. If you can stop people from saying things because you deem them bad, then how long until some one comes forward and doesn't like what you say?


I guess it's the fecal rule: Do unto others before they do unto you.

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

The little faggots got their own Board of Decency...

*sigh*



The ruling, released Wednesday, was in response to a complaint against St. John’s radio station CHOZ-FM. The listener complained that the word faggot – which appears three times in the song is “extremely offensive” to gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

What next, nose pickin a felony? Government loves to; divide, segregate, and classify, but more importantly enforce people to tolerate what they deem in law. Tolerate, Force, but not accept... appears to be happening very frequently.

• faggot or fagot, branch or twig, or bundle of these
• fag or faggot, someone who dislikes their job or work
  • Faggot (unit), archaic unit of measurement for bundles of sticks
  • Death by burning, metonymically referred to by the faggots which fuel the fire
  • Ashen faggot (or ashton fagot), Christmas wassail tradition in the West Country of England
• Faggot (slang), pejorative, now usually for a gay man, also having older and derived pejorative senses
• Faggot (food), British meatball commonly made of pork offal
• Faggots (novel), 1978 novel by Larry Kramer
• Faggoting (metalworking), forge welding a bundle of bars of iron and steel
• Faggoting (knitting), variation of lace knitting in which every stitch is a yarn over or a decrease
• Faggoting stitch, featherstitch, or Cretan stitch, embroidery stitch used to make decorative seams or to attach insertions
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15, USSR jet fighter with NATO reporting name "Fagot"
• 9K111 Fagot, an anti-tank guided missile
• Fagotto, 16′ pedal reed organ stop
• Faggot cell, blast cell type found in acute promyelocytic leukemia
• Faggot voter, hireling eligible to vote as nominal titleholder of part a subdivided property
• Eumeta crameri or faggot worm, from the bundles of twigs it binds to itself
• Jacob Faggot (1699-1777), Swedish scientist who miscalculated the pitches of the Strähle construction
• Faggot Star, a musician or actor who earns fame and money with little physical effort over a short duration

 

[invisible]

Riot’s best song. Its best songs include Outlaw, Altar of the King, and 49er—and the absolutely wild and crazy Hot for Love

What about Swords And Tequila? Yes, an underrated band for sure.

 

[Imaginos]

1984 is here!